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tatewise wrote: ↑25 Nov 2023 00:35 The Tools > Preferences > General date preferences that Bill mentions only apply to displayed formats and not Date entry formats.

Mike,

I'm not sure what you mean. I'm able to enter dates in the format DD MMM YYYY.

Bill

Are you wanting FH to understand mm-dd-yyyy with the dashes? If the dashes don't matter, in Tools > Preferences > General you can select your preferred date format. One of the options is dd mmm yyyy. Would this work for you? Just leave out the dashes. If you need the dashes then I don't believe FH c...

I'm not sure if this matters, but I don't necessarily want the auto capitalization in all fields. I like to enter it in AS as it was actually entered onto the census form by the enumerator. At least here in the U.S. , especially in censuses taken in the1800's, enumerators sometimes used all lower ca...

I can - I just don't work like that. I always logon to FHUG every day (well, Christmas Day aside) and my link takes me straight to the list of unread topics. So I really don't want notifications, especially appearing at odd times of the day, and would mutter if I had to switch any default notificat...

Bill, are you not happy to be opted into a discussion notification when you choose to comment on that discussion? No. If I want to get a notification then I opt-in. I have often made a comment on FHUG and don't really care to continue following the topic. The need to opt-out for so many things in t...

I hate being automatically opted into anything. If I want to be involved, I should have to opt in. There are way too many places where I get opted in automatically, even though I don't want to be.

Bill

Mike, Right click somewhere on a blank portion of the taskbar, select taskbar settings, scroll down to "Select which icons appear on the taskbar", and turn off "Always show all icons in the notification area". Then you can select which ones show on the task bar and which are hidd...

ColeValleyGirl wrote: ↑17 Oct 2023 16:46

jelv wrote: ↑17 Oct 2023 16:42 Does anyone else see me as online now?

You're online, but not browsing this forum.

Interesting that jelv shows as online for you, but not for me.

Bill

ColeValleyGirl wrote: ↑17 Oct 2023 16:34 I'm still curious about what use people make on the 'Who is online' information.

I never look at it.

Bill

jelv wrote: ↑17 Oct 2023 16:42 I've just logged in again with hide set. It now says 7 registered and two hidden. But there are 8 names listed including myself. Does anyone else see me as online now?

You do not show in my list.

Bill

:D It would apper the chosen colour does not stick. I chose orange, being the closest to the original, but it reverts to blue when i log out, definitely not to my liking :| Seems to work for me. I picked brown and when I logout and log back in the brown is still there. Bill Bill, i meant it reverts...

Gowermick wrote: ↑16 Oct 2023 20:06 It would apper the chosen colour does not stick.
I chose orange, being the closest to the original, but it reverts to blue when i log out, definitely not to my liking

Seems to work for me. I picked brown and when I logout and log back in the brown is still there.

Bill

Update by ColeValleyGirl: The default theme is now Metrolike Blue, and all Metrolike users have been switched to this option; the Home Page will be updated to match. A wider range of colours is available to select when you edit your user profile. Thanks for the quick fix Helen and Jane. Bill

It may be just me, but the new Metrolike color scheme is not to my taste. image1.jpg Bill Update by ColeValleyGirl: The default theme is now Metrolike Blue, and all Metrolike users have been switched to this option; the Home Page will be updated to match. A wider range of colours is available to sel...

Fair enough Bill, I picked a bad example. My comment on resizable columns stands though, making it irrelevant how much text is on show. So, IMO all facts should have full dates as entered for consistency. IE 3 Mar 1926 Mar 1926 1926 1925-1926 are all relevant and should be consistently shown, as en...

neil40 wrote: ↑12 Oct 2023 16:01 I get what you are saying Adrian, but the circa doesn't put in the 'day' but does put in the month,

Circa does put in the day for me if that is what I entered.


Bill

laz_gen wrote: ↑18 Sep 2023 21:18 I agree it can be difficult.

The key is to find the name of their ship, often shown on military records or the CWGC website.

For me the dead individuals were not from the UK and were not in the military.

Bill

laz_gen wrote: ↑18 Sep 2023 15:22 Why not go one stage further and actually map the location of those who died at sea.

That works if you know where at sea they died. I have several where I have no idea at all. Only that they were at seas.

Bill

There is not any way to adjust the columns on the focus window.

The space after the death date column is for images of the children and the relationship of the child to the parents.


One way to allow more to show is to make the window wider.

Bill

It certainly sounds like they must be more common in the US! I guess it also depends what level of the class system your ancestors lived in. My family seem to be very much of peasant stock on all sides and I don't think there would commonly have been obituaries written for them in England before th...

They must be more common in the U.S. I have over 1000 obituaries in my file.

Bill

Martin,

You can only add it to the caption at the top of the property box. See this post.

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Bill

Sorry. I originally read right over when you said "and open apps". My mistake.

My intent was really only to show that there was a way to find WebView2 without doing a search.

Bill

Not exactly what he said. I thought maybe Maggie was searching from the Settings home page rather than from the Apps page. That is what I did the first time and didn't find anything either. Jelv didn't say where to do the search so I assumed on the Settings page. So I just described another way to l...

In windows, go to Settings, select apps, don't enter anything in to the search window, scroll down through the apps and look for Microsoft Edge WebVew2 Runtime. If it is in the list, then select it and it will show the version. If it is not in the list, I'm wondering if the problem is that you need ...